Colleges and universities are disclosing the racial makeup of the first class of students

admitted after the US Supreme Court overturned affirmative action.

The numbers give a more detailed look at the potential impact of the court's ruling.

While there's quite a bit of variation, several analyses show black enrollment is down

at a number of colleges.

As part of our series on rethinking college, we're going to look at this with David Leenhart

of the New York Times.

Thanks so much for coming in.

We appreciate it.

Good to be here.

So this first class to be admitted post-affirmative action,

when you look at the data, what stands out? I think the first

thing that stands out is that colleges are different from one another. There's just

a lot of variation. At some schools you see a really big decline in the share of

black students at Columbia in New York at MIT at Amherst College in Massachusetts.

And then at other schools it's relatively flat or even slightly up.

And so places where it's fairly flat are Georgetown Dartmouth Northwestern and I

think after the decision people thought we might see similar trends at all

schools there's just a lot of variation.

And the admissions at HBCUs have seen an increase as well.

Yeah, which makes sense. Let's talk about Asian American enrollment at the

most prestigious schools because that paints a mixed picture as well and I raise it because the people who supported the Supreme Court case

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